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Isaiah Wilson – Score

August 12th – 24th, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
30 minutes

Body and Technology

© Brian Ca

Score is a contemporary dance performance that investigates the relationship between human body and technology. Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) sends electrical impulses to involuntarily activate the performers’ muscles. Using EMS, choreographer Isaiah creates a movement language shaped by computational code rather than conscious intent.

This work blurs the lines between biology and machine, asking urgent ethical questions about the use of emerging technologies in both artistic and everyday contexts. As tools once designed to improve life begin to outperform and even replace the human body, Score critically examines what is lost in terms of agency, identity, and cognitive autonomy.

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Kinetic Orchestra – Bolero

August 12th – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
45 minutes

An Acrobatic Bolero

© Petra Kuha

Bolero is a duet in which a Bolero-named duet is practiced and prepared.

Two dancers specialised in acrobatics and floor technique have become tools of the classical artist’s genius, but inspiration is running low, and the choreography is not progressing. The pressure is high,
and emotions are heating up as they struggle to create something final. The work atmosphere is tense, the humour is dark, and the dance is dangerous.

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Hani Dance – INLET

August 1st – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
60 minutes

About Walls and Borders

© Andrea Galad

Walls have played a significant role throughout human history, both physically and mentally. They act as boundaries, fortresses, and barriers, shaping our interactions and perceptions. In the dance piece INLET, choreographer Saeed Hani and his international ensemble delve into the concept of walls and borders, exploring their relevance in today’s world.

Inspired by the legend of Rome’s founding, where a wall holds symbolic importance, Hani raises thought-provoking questions. Growing up in the Middle East, he has experienced firsthand the limitations imposed by walls, not only physically but also morally and intellectually. Hani challenges the glorification of these barriers, questioning their impact on human progress and the denial of individual freedom. Through INLET, Hani goes beyond traditional contemporary dance, creating a multidimensional experience.

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LA VERONAL – LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA

  • August 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIENNALE DANZA, Venice
  • September 24th – October 9th, 2025 TNC, Barcelona
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona

Duration: unknown

A Fantasy

Marcos Morau and La Veronal, a dance company of great international scope and prestige, explore Mercè Rodoreda’s dark imaginary to construct an allegory about creative freedom, social commitment, and art as salvation and refuge.

La mort i la primavera is Rodoreda’s unfinished novel both dark and beautiful, enigmatic and universal, rebellious and fatalistic, with a universe between the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the animal. A piece that expresses sadness and anger, but also resistance. Rodoreda wrote the work in the early 1960s when she was in exile, and it is thought to be a condemnation of totalitarianism and Rodoreda’s experience with nazism during WWII.

La mort i la primavera will open the season at the TNC after its premiere at the Biennale Danza in Venice.

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 Alexander Ekman – Play

July 25th – 27th, 2025 New National Theatre Opera Palace, Tokyo
130 minutes (incl. one intermission)

Sans Souci

©Benoîte Fanton/OnP

PLAY was created for the Paris Opera Ballet Company by Alexander Ekman, the Swedish choreographer outstanding in the contemporary dance scene. For its global stage premiere in 2017, it thrilled audiences with its fantastic and astonishing stage performance.

Alexander Ekman gained global recognition as the 2024 Paris Paralympics opening ceremony director and choreographer. As he explains, “I always try to find subjects that most of us can relate to. When we are kids, playing feels natural and normal, but as we grow older many of us stop playing, then there is almost an uncomfortable feeling around it. I wanted to create a work that sparks questions and makes people reflect on their own relationship with play.”

On stage, 43 talented dancers bring vibrant energy to the performance, using various play props like jump ropes and rubber balls. The show surprises and delights audiences with smiles and excitement while also challenging them with profound questions and encouraging deeper awareness.

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Chunky Move – U>N>I>T>E>D

July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
September 26th – 28th, 2025 da:ns focus, Singapore
November 20th – 21st, 2025 Camping Asia, Taipei
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Freespace Dance, Hong Kong
55 minutes

Machine Mysticism

© Gianna Rizzo

U>N>I>T>E>D is the latest work in the canon of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s ‘speculative future’ performances, following recent innovative dance experiences created by the company such as Token Armies (2019) and Yung Lung (2022).  

Exploring ‘machine mysticism’ and the persistence of spirituality in a post-industrial digital age, the work is a major international collaboration with leaders in the Javanese experimental scene, Gabber Modus Operandi Bali-based streetwear label Future Loundry, Australian global leaders in animatronic design, Creature Technology Co., and a stellar line up of six dancers.  

Drawing from its artists’ individual artistic and cultural practices, U>N>I>T>E>D will be an exhilarating melding of sophisticated movement, infectious music and science fiction-inspired design, that honours technologies both ancient and contemporary; inner and collective.

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Collectif Foulles – Medieval Crack

July 5th – 6th, 2025 Festival de la Cité, Lausanne
60 minutes

The Medieval Happy Hours

© Julie Folly

In Medieval Crack, Collectif Foulles, accompanied by historian Clovis Maillet, goes in search of the queer cracks in medieval history — those hidden spaces that allow other narratives, identities, and dances to emerge. In a bid to reappropriate time and history, the collective gleans material for emancipation from the representations and relics of the Middle Ages. Yes, the medieval period also had its happy hours of enlightenment and freedom.

The collective questions the shifts in meaning inherent in the mapping of our bodies — both past and present. All of this is captured with great mischief in a living fresco full of relief and gaiety.

Collectif Foulles—made up of Collin Cabanis, Auguste de Boursetty, Délia Krayenbühl, Emma Saba, and Fabio Zoppelli—has existed since 2018. It all started with affinities, friendships, jokes, and a meeting.

A desire to dance together, to share music, images, and texts—to share a host of things with a host of people. In their work, their most diverse passions come together in a jumble, with no hierarchy. Their approach is precise and respectful, but also celebratory and generous. They weave threads of discussion and tension, maintaining complexity—crossing time with the joy of a battalion.

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Ocean Stefan – Blood Show

June 27th – 28th, 2025 Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
70 minutes

An Endless Battle

© Kirsten McTernan

Three figures, 75 liters of fake blood, an endless battle – Blood Show is a call to put what’s inside on the outside and defend oneself against violent gazes. This cyclical feat of endurance and precision is a euphoric trans celebration of destruction – including our own – in order to create something new. Questions revolve around the concept of rebirth and the ghosts we carry with us. Blood Show is the second performance in Ocean Stefan’s “Extinction” trilogy – an experiment to reflect on the limits of the human body. Why do we want to know what people “really” look like? How dangerous is the idea of the “natural”?

Ocean Stefan makes work with runs across performance, installations, texts and film. Their artistic practice moves in the in-between and in superimposition – it celebrates the living and the blurred. Ocean Stefan is interested in the gray areas of life and questions the fixed.

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Tero Saarinen – Study for Life

June 24th – 25th, 2025 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
July 30th – 31st, 2025 Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz
80 minutes

A Sensory Experience

© Mikko Suutarinen

Tero Saarinen’s new creation delves into the music of Kaija Saariaho. In Study for Life, a group of six dancers, nine musicians of the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, soprano Raquel Camarinha, and innovative electronic sound design that interweaves Saariaho’s compositions, bring her nuanced and delicate world to life. This work confronts the contemporary human desire to be moved and envelops the spectator in a powerful sensory experience.

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Akram Khan & Manal AlDowoyan – Thikra: Night of Remembering

June 22nd – 24th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 29th – August 1st, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
August 17th, 2025 Santander International Festival, Santander
September 19th – 21st, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
September 26th – 28th, 2025 Théâtre Sénart, Lieusaint
October 2nd – 18th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
October 28th – November 1st, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
November 5th – 6th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
November 11th – 12th, 2025 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
November 19th – 20th, 2025 Tanz Köln, Cologne
65 minutes

No Future without a Past

© Camilla Greenwell

Thikra: Night of Remembering is Akram Khan Company’s latest production created in collaboration with award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan.

Thikra draws inspiration from AlUla’s ancient landscapes, mythology and cultural heritage to evoke the idea that “without a past, there is no future.”

Blending Bharatanatyam with contemporary, the piece is performed by a collective of all-female voices, accompanied by an original score from Aditya Prakash, sound design by Gareth Fry, lighting by Zeynep Kepekli and dramaturgy by Blue Pieta.

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